Okay now I'm confused.
Last we had checked issue #4 of this series had a huge fallout, tumbling thousands of issues to have only 7,750 copies ordered by retailers.
Now issue #5's report comes out and it's actually DOUBLED in sales, landing at 148th place with 13,750 orders.
I can't understand why there was this sudden jump, especially considering there wasn't anything special going on with the issue.
There weren't any exclusive monster fights, the writing/drawing team was still the same, no dozens of variant covers, everything was just the status quo.
The closest thing I can think of is that IDW must have given an extra discount to retailers to help buy more issues, as happens sometimes within the world of comics when things become stagnant. So if retailers were normally buying the issues at half-off retail price, then now it's 60% off and so forth.
In either case an interesting jump to see within this series
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